As Baghdad
falls, there is no sign of you. If you are indeed still alive, it
is because you chickened out and ran to Syria and left your
people to die at the hands of the troops. Sad thing though, if
you are hiding in the plush resorts of exiled leaders in Syria,
you are also there with all the weapons you secretly stored there
before the inspectors arrived in Iraq. And that means, like a bad
penny, you will turn up again.

I disapprove that one thing
about exiling tyrants like you. You can sit in luxury for a few
years and watch the rebuilding of your country and when you
decide that enough time has passed and you have plotted your
revenge, the coup to retake the country begins.

The only exile I believe in is
in a six by six cement cell. In your case, preferably with a side
room complete with a torture chamber so you can personally
experience all the pain and suffering that you have inflicted on
countless thousands. There is no need for me to describe the
types of torture and humiliation that you would be subjected to
because you have watched tape after tape of the suffering that
you invoked and know all to well what you can expect. As a side
note, I would also include a personal rape room since that also
was a favorite punishment that you embellished. I wonder how much
dignity you would feel after being forced to sit on a glass
bottle until it breaks or some other instrument shoved up your
orifice.

Are you afraid Saddam? Is your
body trembling with fear? Life has a funny way of exacting its
revenge on those who are ruthless and cold hearted. Did you
really believe that your Allah approved of your wicked ways? Do
you honestly believe that the pearly gates of Heaven will open up
wide for your entrance to eternal paradise? How sick and twisted
you are if you believe that. The only heaven I am sure you will
ever see will be in the fiery gates of eternal damnation. One can
only hope that you are already there but I sense death was not
quite ready for you yet. Death would have been far to easy and I
will admit that you're a sly one and covered all your bases
by using your doubles in various places so that we would believe
it was you in the buildings the bombs dropped on.

I wonder, Saddam, was it
disheartening to discover that the people you ruled over did not
love you? They did not amass by the millions to save you and the
country you claim to love so much. Quite the opposite actually.
The people you have oppressed for so very long are finally
feeling a bit of the freedoms they have longed for. They are
tearing your images down and spitting on them. They are
destroying your lifelike statues and cheering all the while. They
are finally free to say what they think of you and not have to
fear death by doing so. I totally enjoy the sounds of their
laughter and the smiling faces of the children. Especially when
the children were released from the prison you had locked up
because they refused to fight for you. Children should be playing
baseball and eating ice cream, not picking up AK-47s to kill for
something they are far to young to understand. You're a mean
one Mr. Hussein.

I must give you credit for one
thing though. You did not use weapons of Mass Destruction on the
people or the troops. You did not fire missiles into Israel. You
managed to prove the Bush administration wrong on those
assertions. Does this make this war justified without evidence of
WMD? I shall leave that to the talking heads to debate over. I am
sure in your mind it is completely unjustified, as is your right,
but sometimes the end justifies the means. Your demise is means
enough for most of the population. Nothing can bring back the
lives of the dead innocents and that will haunt so many people
for years to come. War is never an option one goes into wearing
rose-colored glasses. Sadly, it takes the sacrifices of the few
to bring freedom and liberation to so many.

As the people of Iraq and the
world say farewell to you and your tyranny, I have to ask you one
last question. Were your final days filled with hatred of
President Bush or was there a bit of reluctant admiration that
Bush set out to exactly as he said would and did not buckle under
public opinion? I think you really relied on the world court of
public opinion to save you but deep down you knew better. While
President Bush is not the most beloved man in the world and many
call him maniacal in his foreign policy, at least his character
shows that he will not back down in ridding the world of the
likes of you.